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This drive-in was located beside Highway 50 and Sunrise Boulevard near Sacramento and opened in September 1955. It had a way cool children’s playground there. It was closed in the mid-1970’s and torn down in the early-1980’s.

This location is in Rancho Cordova. The address Lost Memory posted is correct.

The theater was scheduled for a fall, 1965, opening, according to an item in the May 31, 1965, issue of Boxoffice Magazine. The name had not yet been chosen. The drive-in was being built by National General Corporation, and was slated to accommodate 1,182 cars. The architect was Gale Santocono, of San Francisco.

Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of October 25, 1965, gives the opening date of National General’s Thunderbird Drive-In as September 1 that year. It also confirms the car capacity as 1,182, and the architect as Gale Santocono.